Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-07
AUSTIN LETTER.
The Members OF the DrGuth Committee
Start for the Suffering District.
A Pardon Issued.
A Thorough Investigation to BIS Made to
Ferret Out the Party who Altered
the Drummer's License.
Correspondence of the Gazette.

Walter P. Lane of Marshall, Judge Il. P
league of Kaufman and William Ferguson
editor of the San Antonio Times. They
have been in the city two or three days in
consultation with Senators and Represen-
tatiyes from the drouth district gaining
all the information possible. Lieutenant
Governor Wheeler and Senator Calhoun
were assisting them this afternoon to map
out a route THE GAZETTE reporter
found Mr.. Ferguson and Judge league
in the Driskill tonight, and learned from
them that the committee will start for
Lsmpasas in the morning and from there
TO Cisco via Brownwood and Coleman.
The committee expect to reach Cisco in
ABOUT ten days and make it their head
quarters as it is considered to be the
most central point. On account of the
Sh ortness of time allowed, the committee
will separate, each taking a different
route, mapped out before leaving Austin.
This will be g preliminary proceeding TO
relieve immediate suffering. After trav-
cling over their respective routes the
members of the committee will return to
Cisco and perfect their plans for further
work. The members of the committee
are all honorable, high-minded
gentlemen, selected by the governor
because they cannot have the
remotest desire to favor any
particular section. They will dlspens e
with a secretary and do their own work
and give the people the benefit of what
would have been the secretary's salary.
They will be pleased to receive all the in
formation that the citizens can give them,
and intend to do everything in their pow
er to make an equitable distribution.
Further investigation into the matter
OF the c. A. Lilly certificate for drum
mer's license fraudulently altered to
swindle the state OF Texas out OF years
occupation tax, revealed the fact this
morning in the Comptroller's office that
not only the office, but Mr.. c. A..
Lilly himself has been made the
victim of this attempt to defraud.
MI Lilly is in Austin, and visited Comp
troller Mccall this morning and produced
satisfactory evidence that he was in
Texas at the time the letter was mailed at
New Orleans sending the false certificate
asking transfer TO Mr.. Sullivan, and
could not possibly have written the letter
purporting to have been sent by him from
New Orleans. When Mr.. Mccall
examined the letter written by
Mr.. Lilly from Texarkana, asking for
renewal of his license with the one writ
ten at New Orleans, he became convinced
that the same man did not write both let
tiers. To complicate matters more COM
pletely, Mr.. d. S. Sullivan, the man to
whom the forged certificate was to have
been transferred, telephoned Comptroller
Mccall on the Sd from Houston, that he
would come to Austin and see about this
matter Immediately; but he has not ap-
peared. ii Mr.. D. S. Sullivan
comes Up and proves that
he is also an innocent third
party whose name has been used in con-
nection with this attempted swindle,
there will be work for detective to hunt
up the man who personated c. A. Lilly,
in the letter written to the Comptroller's
office from New Orleans, containing the
forged certificate. Mr.. Mccall says he
will see that this case has rigid inyestiga-
ton, for reasons that several frauds have
been attempted heretofore on the Office
relative to matters of a kindred nature.
Who said that the Senators and Repre-
sentatives had exhausted their eloquence
and weakened their voices during the
senatorial contest? This mornings ses-
sion of both houses is convincing proof
that this accusation is untrue Senator
Bells bill, making it penal offense to
use language or be guilty of conduct
calculated to provoke a
breach of the peace, served as
vent for the escape of a
superabundance of eloquence in the Sen
ate during the morning session. The
cutting out OF words and the amending of
sections was INDUCED in to a great ex-
tent till the original bill looked for sill the
world like 'crazy quilt"
Mr.. Tate's reformatory bill in the
House went through similar ordeal, and
when it reached engrossment it had
been punctured and patched until it
could have been properly labeled SIT Is
wise child that knows its father"
charter was filed in the Secretary of
States office to-day to authorize the
Texas Building and Loan Association of
Corsicana to do business, capital stock
$50, 900, incorporators j. Z. Wilesell,
Stephen Smith, G.. W. Jester, W. F.
Shook, R. S. Nablett, T. L. Read and G.
T. Sullivan.
The Union Fire Insurance Company of
San Francisco called for papers in the
office of Hon. L. L. Foster, Commissioner
Of Insurance, Statistics and History, to-
day for the privilege to enter the state.
The Attorney General prepared a bond
today at the request of the drouth relief
committee to be followed out by county
sreasurers in the counties where the
will take place.
The Governor this morning issued
pardon to Simon Richards, negro, con-
'icted IN Marion county of murder in the |
second degree.
The Penitentiary Board met to-day, but |
no business of Importance.
A few accounts were audited and other |
minor matters attended to.
This gentleman was before the Senate
judiciary committee No. l, and made an |
!ble argument against the features of |
senator Harrison's railroad bill to pre-
'ent the discharge of employees without
lrst giving them thirty days. notice, and
equiring employees to give railroads
hirty days notice before quitting or
,oing on a strike. In his opening re-
marks Major Waldo said:
SIN the remarks | shall make | wish it
understood that cast no reflection on
he rlght-thinking and acting man any
where. l have read the bill now before